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chimera

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Reply #15 - Jun 2^nd, 2020 at 7:10am

Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on May 26^th, 2020 at 11:36pm:

look at every other upstart with a chip on the shoulder who's taken on the might of the Civilised World...

Britain had a chip about Henry VIII's pope and the Spanish gold. They went to Asia to steal more from the Portuguese and Spanish Empires. Later they were locked-down at Port Jackson and found more gold , stole from Chinese gold-miners and flogged iron to China. They might be civilised.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 49160 Gender:	Re: Hong Kong Reply #16 - Jun 2^nd, 2020 at 7:42am Britain got it right in North America & Sahul and South America and had 'Lawrence' in the Middle-East. But in Africa, Asia - they got it wrong. And they will eventually get it wrong in Europe too - unlike Germany, soon France and then Italy who forfeit their Colonies to get it right.
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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 11777 Armidale Gender:	Re: Hong Kong Reply #17 - Jun 2^nd, 2020 at 5:32pm Until the French revolution the British monarch was crowned as king of France. It's still British territory by conquest and common sense, and French natives soon learn English.
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Re: Hong Kong
Reply #18 - Jun 2^nd, 2020 at 7:28pm

chimera wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2020 at 5:32pm:

Until the French revolution the British monarch was crowned as king of France. It's still British territory by conquest and common sense, and French natives soon learn English.

Louis the Sixteenth was the King of France,
In seventeen eighty nine,
He was worse than Louis the Fourteenth
He was worse than Louis the Fifteenth,
He was the worst,
Since Louis the first..

Well - he sure weren't George III - aye, The Madness of King George...

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
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Re: Hong Kong
Reply #19 - Jun 17^th, 2020 at 4:57am

chimera wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2020 at 5:32pm:

Until the French revolution the British monarch was crowned as king of France. It's still British territory by conquest and common sense, and French natives soon learn English.

You're right.

The last British monarch to claim the title of “King of France” was George III. He stopped using the title on 31st December 1800, and the claim to the French throne was officially dropped in 1802.

The British still did this despite the fact the English lost the Hundred Years War where they attempted, and failed, to conquer large swathes of France and claim the French crown for Edward III.

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